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Re: Data in tables or lists with accessibility and responsive design in mind

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From: Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Date: Feb 11, 2014 8:19AM

Ben,

Before settling on the DL approach, you should take a look at a recent thread on the W3C WAI discussion list. This message, in particular, discusses some problems with how AT has implemented DLs:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2014JanMar/0031.html
(See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2014JanMar/thread.html for listing by thread - you can see that discussion has been lively!)

While "use the right element for the job and reports bugs to AT vendors" is the right thing to do (as is pointed out someplace in that thread) I think you have some choice in what the "right" element is, and so may want to consider how it will actually work for users.

sb
Sarah E. Bourne
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Information Technology Division
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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Thanks for all the thinking... Yes Léonie that is the catch... I want it to
work on smaller screen sizes, and I don't think it'll work on a phone in a
table... so I'm gonna go with the DL suggestion and tableish styling for
large screen display. :)